School of Languages and Cultures

Winter Research Program 2021

AVAILABLE PROJECTS

  1. Indonesia Council Open Conference: Assistant Program Organisers
  2. Converting the Mudburra dictionary into e-dictionaries
  3. How accurate is professional Mandarin/English interpreters' real-life telephone interpretation?
  4. Maidens sans frontiers – Girl Culture in Japan and Beyond
  5. Politeness strategies in Korean: Analysing spoken discourse in the socio-cultural context
  1. Sensing Australia’s Living heritage
  2. Developing and validating written and oral proficiency tests for second language Japanese
  3. Social action and meaning negotiation in discourse
  4. COVID-19 Communication by Australian governments

2. Converting the Mudburra dictionary into e-dictionaries

Project duration:

4 weeks (21 June-23 July)

Description:

This project will involve converted the Mudburra dictionary into e-dictionaries with images and a click and hear function which will be hosted online.

Expected outcomes and deliverables:

Summer Research scholars will gain hands on experience in using dictionary-making software common to field linguistics. They will also become familiar with linguistic annotation tools and elicitation methodologies. The end result will be five searchable, talking e-dictionaries transcripts.

Number of hours per week: 

20

Suitable for:

This project is open to applications from advanced students with a background in Linguistics and an interest in fieldwork, and Australian languages. Indigenous applicants are particularly encouraged to apply.

Number of participants required: 

1

Primary Supervisor:

Professor Felicity Meakins

Further info: 

For initial enquiries, please contact Professor Felicity Meakins via email